The Violence of the Media and the Media of Violence

Violence and sex have been an irresistible fascination for art, literature and the media from the beginning until today – as a glance at the cave paintings in Lascaux or in Homer’s Iliad immediately shows. However, one is not always on the level of Homer or the early cave painting art when it comes to sex and violence, as recently demonstrated by the unspeakable, because in every sense of the word vulgar, case of Harvey Weinstein.

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   https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justizirrtum_um_Horst_Arnold

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   Cf. inter alia Meyer, Th. (2015). Die Unbelangbaren – Wie politische Journalisten mitregieren.

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   see the Spiegel cover story of 7.10.2017: Die unheimliche Macht – Wie ARD und ZDF Politik betreiben.

Authors and Affiliations

1. Universität Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

   Jochen Hörisch

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Editors and Affiliations

1. Department für Erziehung- und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität zu Köln Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

   Jutta Ecarius

2. Fachbereich Pädagogik, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

   Johannes Bilstein

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